Turkish Education Association provides comprehensive scholarship opportunities to successful students who do not have access to quality education due to financial difficulties. Supporting students by providing equal education opportunities to all segments of society is one of the main goals of the Turkish Education Association. In this direction, the association continues its work with a unique and comprehensive scholarship system in order to "contribute to equal opportunity in education and raise well-equipped individuals", which is one of its three basic missions since its establishment.
"I lost my father when I was very young. I was no longer seeing the light above the water, but the darkness of the bottom, when a hand reached out to me. He grabbed my hands and pulled me up in one fell swoop. I cannot forget the hero of my memory, the Turkish Education Association. Now I am warmed up and enlightened under a big torch."
The Education Scholarship whose students are selected with the interviews (home visits) conducted after the centralized exams that are held throughout Turkey covers not only school fees but also all expenses including pocket money, transportation service, food, book-stationery, clothing, and dormitory (if the student is a boarding student).
Scholarships of the students who are qualified to be included in the system, get educated and graduate from TED Schools and continue to be granted during their university education. In addition, in the system where internship and career follow-up of university students are carried out, the placement processes of graduate students are supported and monitored. Up until today 50.000 students have benefited from the TED Scholarship System.
This scholarship is granted to academically successful students who study at public schools and have limited financial means. The Support Scholarship is provided to students who meet the criteria determined by the Turkish Education Association, and whose interviews and document reviews yield positive results. Students are supported from the class level they qualify for the scholarship until the end of university. In addition to providing financial support to cover students’ educational expenses, their academic and psychosocial progress is also monitored. Every weekend, various training sessions are held under the headings of English lessons, sports, and art activities to support their social and cultural development. Support Scholarship students attend classes at TED Schools or TED University on weekends.
Turkish Education Association always follows the agenda of our country and heals the wounds of children when social problems occur. TED supports the children of the workers who lost their lives in the Soma mine disaster with the Give a Hand to Soma campaign and the children affected by the earthquake with the We are with you, Elazığ campaign. 186 children in Soma and 57 children in Elazığ receive scholarships. The TED Disaster Scholarship, which started to be given to around 800 students who lost their parents in the earthquake with the “Don’t Let Earthquake Destroy Our Future” campaign after the February 6 earthquakes, will last approximately eight years until the end of high school education. In addition to financial support with in this scholarship programme, our Association carries out psycho-social and academic support activities.
Our Association, which believes in the importance of whole person development of young people who will create the future of a country and considers it as a duty to support the training of successful young people who will represent our country in every field, has offered a scholarship for the young people who are talented and successful in sports but are unable to continue their sports careers due to financial difficulties. As of the 2020-2021 academic year, our association started to grant this scholarship.
The scope of the scholarship programme provided by TED is to cover the educational expenses of the athletes starting from the school grade in which they are entitled to a scholarship until the end of their high school education and to support the athletes to gain international qualifications.
TED Adana Bekir Sapmaz Student Dormitory
TED Adana Bekir Sapmaz Student Dormitory, which has provided accommodation to thousands of students in 63 years, was founded on October 28, 1949 by Bekir Sapmaz and Ahmet Sapmaz brothers, valuable businessmen from Adana who opened Turkey's first textile factory. TED Adana Bekir Sapmaz Student Dormitory, which started to serve with the repair of an old school building, was donated to the Turkish Education Association by the Sapmaz Family so that it could continue in a more institutional structure.
Students who are successful but have inadequate financial means are accepted to the dormitory, whose expenses are covered by the income from two business houses donated by the Sapmaz family. TED Adana Bekir Sapmaz Student Dormitory, with a student capacity of 234, has accommodated around 1,700 students free of charge and around 5,000 students for a fee so far. Turkish Education Association aims to reach more students by increasing the number of scholarship students staying in dormitories.
TED Karabük College Student Dormitory
TED Karabük College Student Dormitory was opened in the 1982-1983 academic year with 220 students, both boys and girls. The girls' boarding section, which was closed in the 1990-1991 academic year, started to serve again in the 2004-2005 academic year.
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